Information sampling for vision-based robot navigation

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 145-159

  Winters, Niall ^a,b   Santos Victor, José ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Appearance based methods; Omnidirectional vision; Vision based navigation; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; MOBILE ROBOTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION SAMPLING;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 0037202507     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(02)00278-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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